1. Wild rats that are not brown. With an exception for the extremely rare albino ones all wild rats are brown. How can no one in an entire film crew know this?! And if they know, how can they not care?! THIS IS IMPORTANT STUFF. Every time I see supposedly wild rats that are hooded or spotted or white or beige in a film I sigh and think the film makers are total n00bz or really sloppy.
2. A diabetic faints, and people go "QUICK! Get her/his insulin!" It's extremely uncommon to faint from insulin deficiency, and far more likely to faint from too much insulin. I have been diabetic for 22 years now and I have been absolutely terrible at taking my insulin at times, and my blood sugar has been too high for my blood test machine thing to even register it countless times, but the only immediate reactions I have ever experienced have been nausea, headache, extreme thirst, fatigue and irritability. I have, however, fainted quite a few times from having taken too much insulin, and if someone had given me more at that point they might have killed me. What I need then is sugar, fast.
3. Snow not being particularly cold. Keeping a window open or walk around in a nightgown or a t-shirt when it's snowing is Very Very Cold, not A Tad Chilly. It causes shaking and teeth chattering! The average person can't stand around without proper clothes on and chat casually in a snowfall! Put some friggin' clothes on or at least show some signs of it being cold!
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So I couldn't really think of anything, and then the film, Unknown, is on. And in the most ranom of moments Liam Neeson picked up this chicks sketchbook with those MOST AWFUL drawings in it and Liam Neeson said: MMM, THOSE ARE GOOD.
ReplyDeleteNo, they bloody aren't. They never are. They weren't good in Titanic, they aren't good in Unknown, they always are TERRIBLE.
Also, with regards to your point 3., a friend of mine has in fact walked around town throught the night wearing a t-shirt and smoking a pipe. It was December. He was fine!
It wasn't until after that he ended up with a pneumonia.
Hahaha, yessss, that! Always! It's like the director has been all "Well actually my 16 year old niece is a really good artist... maybe we can use her pictures?" and noone had the balls to say no.
ReplyDeleteI'm going to deem your friend as not an average person then!
OMG there are some frustrating film pet peeves I've noticed recently, it seems to happen often in movies and it happened in 2 (!!) I've watched in the last week...
ReplyDeleteA woman gets brutally gang raped or severally sexually abused in some way but then for no apparent reason decides to keep it a secret, not tell her close and caring friends or family and proceeds to act as if it never happened or even go as far as continue to chat casually with her rapists later on as if it never happened... ummm what?!! that seems to me to be very unlikely for a person to go on acting normal and smiling or make out with their boyfriend 10 mins after or the next day after such an event and to not tell anyone seems to me to also be putting across a very dangerous message like it's just a run of the mill occurence, never mind dear, carry on! Argh.
And also people who freeze up like a startled mute vegetable and don't fight for their lifes or defend there loved ones (even worse) when in life threatening situations, and do annouying stuff like hand over the gun to the person who is OBVIOUSLY secretly a total psycho and totally planning to kill you. WHY?!?!
Both these things had me yelling at the tv in frustration like a crazy person, one of the movies I even turned off half way through coz it made me so irritated, and that is pretty rare for me, I'll usually just keep on watching even if I'm not totally into it.